News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant Solicited Approximately $7 Million From 50 or More Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Carlos Beltran-Flores, aka “Joker," age 23, of Hyattsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including murder, attempted murder, assault, extortion and robbery; and carrying, using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a markup on Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a number of bills aimed at improving transparency and process at the Federal Communications Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Garrett Griffin, age 25, of Biddeford, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to 70 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, a/k/a “crack" cocaine and heroin. He pled guilty to the charges on Jan. 29, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: ASHFORD, WA -Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Randy King announces that the park will begin increasing park entrance and camping fees on May 22, 2015. These fee increases, first announced in November, were open for public comment through the end of 2014. The timeline for implementation and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Wayne “Bam Bam" Broderick (39, Lakeland) to 20 years in federal prison for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of firearms during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 24, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 18, 2015 - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) issued the following statement in response to a series of administrative initiatives put forward today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service that are designed to increase transparency, expand stakeholder input, and improve the science used to develop listing determinations under the Endangered Species Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Last week in Austin, 37-year-old Abby Lindemann Johnson, owner of Pain Management Solutions, a licensed Durable Medical Equipment provider, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for her role in a health care fraud scheme with an estimated intended loss of more than $1 million, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez of the Southern District of Florida sentenced defendant Carmen Cadena, 48, a Mexican national, to serve five years in prison for her role in a brutal family-run sex trafficking organization. The defendant shall also be ordered to pay restitution and hearing is set on Aug. 10, 2015 to determine the amount.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: The following is the House Judiciary Committee’s schedule for the week May 18 - 22.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) endorsed a proposal from the House to extend authorization of the Highway Trust Fund for two months and called on his Democratic colleagues to consider eliminating low-priority and unnecessary spending as part of a package to extend the trust fund come July.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant Dug Hideout in Greenbelt near Sammamish, Washington Condominiums.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 4 years probation, 24 months home detention and ordered to forfeit firearms, destructive devices and explosive materials on his conviction of violating federal gun laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: As part of the ongoing program to open traditional vistas in Acadia National Park, park crews, in partnership with the Forestry Department of the University of Maine, will begin work on the restoration of the second vista overlooking Eagle Lake, located 0.7 miles south of the Cadillac Mountain entrance...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant Caught with Hundreds of Stolen Checks and Identity Documents for more than 380 Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Shawnston Beaudoin has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), will mark up bipartisan legislation this week to save taxpayers billions of dollars by reforming management of federal office space and real estate, and to increase accountability and oversight of the agency responsible for securing and protecting thousands of federal buildings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - Fourteen persons have been charged in connection with an alleged wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to violate airport security requirements and transport drugs throughout the country announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez of the Internal Revenue...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Gilbert Stokes, age 46, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the Dec. 12, 2013 armed robbery of a Windsor Mill, Maryland, convenience store. Stokes also admitted to the attempted armed robbery of a hotel on December 6, 2013, and to the armed robbery of a fast food restaurant on Dec. 23, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2015
News Release: Airport Baggage Handlers Charged in Wide-Ranging Conspiracy to Transport Drugs Across the Country.
